Roberta L Woodgate
Biographic Data
| ID | 190321 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roberta L Woodgate |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roberta L |
| FAMILY NAME | Woodgate |
| SIGNATURE | WOODGATE R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7176-2390 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Journey Mapping in Applied Public Health and Social Sciences (J-MAPHS) Research
Journey mapping, a participatory arts-based research method, is used to explore experiences, connections and influences by creating graphical depictions that include both time and emotional response dimensions. In health and social sciences research, use of journey mapping can be valuable for participants, researchers, health and social care professionals, and the public. It has been used to explore patient journeys through healthcare systems and…
Positive forces for care
African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) women face enduring socio-structural inequities, yet research on what positively influences their engagement in the HIV care continuum is limited. This community-based qualitative study, conducted in collaboration with HIV-focused clinics, involved 10-ACB women living with HIV and 12 care staff in Winnipeg. Guided by critical-race and feminist theories, intersectionality, and constructivist grounded theory, sem…
The employment preferences of young people in Canada
The findings suggest that health and wellbeing are highly valued by YW and are among key drivers of employment preferences for Canadian YW during and after the pandemic, and therefore call for policies in the workplace that support the health and well-being of YW
Exploring Eco-Grief, Transformative Learning, and Action in Environmental Observers
This research aimed to contribute to understanding emotional reactions to ecological change in “environmental observers,” who purposely observe the environment and environmental information as part of their work or role in society (e.g., citizen scientists, environmental professionals, Indigenous knowledge keepers). People in such roles are vulnerable to experiencing negative emotions, which could, in turn, affect their decision to keep engaging …
Alone, Lost, and Unprepared by the System
Limited research has been carried out on Indigenous young people transitioning out of care in Canada. This article provides a coherent and meaningful account of the journey of aging out of care in the province of Manitoba, as presented by 17 Indigenous care leavers. Using a qualitative multilevel approach grounded in first-person narratives, this study focused on incorporating and elevating the voices of Indigenous care leavers. Participants deta…
Challenges and recommendations for advancing respite care for families of children and youth with special health care needs
INTRODUCTION: Caring for children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) is a significant undertaking for families. While respite care is intended to address this burden, demand continues to exceed supply. Exploring the perspectives of respite service providers (SPs) and stakeholders (SKs) provides unique insight into families' needs and respite care systems. METHODS: We conducted semistructured interviews with 41 respite care SPs and …
Perceptions and Use of Cannabis Vaping Products Amongst Youth
Youth and Young Adults’ Knowledge and Perceptions of Risks and Benefits Regarding Cannabis Products
Canada legalized the use of non-medical cannabis in 2018. This study examines youth and young adults' knowledge and perceptions of harms, benefits, and education around cannabis use since legalization. An online survey was completed by a convenience sample of 1,759 individuals aged 12-25 years living in Manitoba, Canada. Most participants ( n = 1,525, 86.7%) reported receiving education on the potential effects/harms related to cannabis; the most…
Coping Among Canadian Youth Living With Anxiety
The purpose of this phenomenological photovoice study was to explore the lived experience of coping among 58 Canadian youth diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. A youth advisory committee was actively engaged throughout the project. Two phases of interviews were conducted more than a period of 4 years (2012–2016), supplemented by photovoice in the second interview. Data analysis was informed by van Manen’s hermeneutic phenomenology approach and hi…
A Living Lab for Family Centered Knowledge Exchange in Pediatric Rehabilitation and Development Research
Background Historically, the experiences and voices of children and youth living with neurodiversity or rehabilitation needs and their families have not been fully represented in health research. Formative research in this context indicates that families value learning from the experiences of other families as well as from empirical research. However, innovative systems are needed to support this imperative. In response, we co-designed a virtual …
Co-designing Guidelines for Using Arts-based methods when Conducting Youth Mental Health Research in Online Environments
Co-designing research-informed guidelines with youth for adapting research methods to other contexts has received little research attention. We report on guidelines co-designed with youth for adapting arts-based methods (ABM) for youth mental health (MH) research in online environments. Seven youth co-researchers participated in 3 co-design workshops and 2 graphic recording focus groups. Data analysis involved a thematic analysis approach. We ide…
Behind the Paintbrush
Arts-based research (ABR) makes many promises, including the opportunity to engage with embodied ways of being and knowing, raise social and political concerns, as well as to address novel, participant-led inquiries. In this critical narrative review of the literature, we examine how disabled children and youth employ ABR methods in research contexts by carefully examining studies that use visual ABR. A secondary aim is to glean methodological in…
The centrality of disclosure decisions to the illness experience for youth with chronic conditions
The aim of this paper is to illuminate findings of disclosure experiences for youth living with chronic illness using a non-categorical approach. The findings were derived from a larger qualitative study framed by social constructivist grounded theory that sought to understand youth's involvement in healthcare decision-making in the context of chronic illness. Fifty-four youth participated in the study, ranging from 9 to 24 years. Three main them…
Muddy Waters
Illuminating Indigenous health care provider stories through forum theater
Learning about the historical and current context of Indigenous peoples’ lives and building campus communities that value cultural safety remains at the heart of the Canadian educational agenda and have been enacted as priorities in the Manitoba Collaborative Indigenous Education Blueprint. A participatory approach informed by forum theater and Indigenous sharing circles involving collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous health care pr…
Understanding Youth’s Lived Experience of Anxiety through Metaphors
Living with anxiety can be a complex, biopsychosocial experience that is unique to each person and embedded in their contexts and lived worlds. Scales and questionnaires are necessary to quantify anxiety, yet these approaches are not always able to reflect the lived experience of psychological distress experienced by youth. Guided by hermeneutic phenomenology, our research aimed to amplify the voices of youth living with anxiety. Fifty-eight yout…
African Refugee Youth’s Experiences of Navigating Different Cultures in Canada
Refugee youth face challenges in navigating different cultures in destination countries and require better support. However, we know little about the adaptation experiences of African refugee youth in Canada. Accordingly, this paper presents the adaptation experiences of African refugee youth and makes recommendations for ways to support youth. Twenty-eight youth took part in semi-structured interviews. Using a thematic analysis approach, qualita…
The Wicked Problem of Stigma for Youth Living With Anxiety
Anxiety disorders typically emerge in childhood and, if left untreated, can lead to poor health and social outcomes into adulthood. Stigma contributes to the burden of mental illness in youth. Mental health stigma has been conceptualized as a wicked problem and efforts to address this complexity require a greater understanding of how stigma operates in the lives of youth. Fifty-eight youth in Manitoba, Canada aged 10 to 22 years and living with a…
Creating Space for Youth Voice
This paper examines youth's disclosure experiences within the context of chronic illness, drawing on examples from IN•GAUGE, an on-going research program led by Dr. Roberta L. Woodgate. Youth's descriptions of their disclosure experiences provide valuable insights into the ways in which they use their voice in everyday life. This examination of the disclosure experiences of youth offers a lens through which the concept of youth voice in the resea…
The Parental Experience of Unexpectedly Losing a Child in the Pediatric Emergency Department
Child loss is the most traumatic loss a parent can experience, increasing their risk of negative outcomes such as complicated grief. Unexpected loss in the unfamiliar environment of the Emergency Department (ED) significantly increases this risk. Despite this knowledge, research on child loss in the context of the ED is scarce. An interpretive description qualitative research study was performed with eight parents (five mothers and three fathers)…
Above chaos, quest, and restitution
Youth experienced different settlement journeys that were mired in chaos and challenges. However, youth were more likely to experience restitution when they received social support and found a sense of belonging. In future, policies and programs that seek to improve immigrant and refugee youth's settlement experiences need to be multifaceted, offer more support and promote a sense of belonging
A qualitative study on African immigrant and refugee families’ experiences of accessing primary health care services in Manitoba, Canada
African immigrant and refugee families experience barriers to accessing primary health care. To improve access, culturally relevant programs, collaborative networking approaches, and policies that focus on addressing social determinants of health are needed
A qualitative study on the intersectional social determinants for indigenous people who become infected with HIV in their youth
The findings highlight the need for policies and programs that are broadly focused, addressing multiple social determinants together. Overall, there needs to be more emphasis on the multiple social determinants in the life situations of all Indigenous youth. Reducing the health and social disparities in Indigenous youth is key to reducing the number of young Indigenous people diagnosed with HIV. The findings also shed light on the importance of l…
Interventions for youth aging out of care
The embodied spaces of children with complex care needs
Living in a World of Our Own
In this article, we discuss findings of a hermeneutic phenomenological study that sought to describe the experiences of parents who have a child with autism. Qualitative interviews were conducted with parents from 16 families of children with autism residing in a western Canadian province. "Living in a world of our own" emerged as the essence of the parents' experiences. In "living in a world of our own," parents described a world of isolation. T…
Navigating Ethical Challenges in Qualitative Research With Children and Youth Through Sustaining Mindful Presence
This article explores ethical challenges in qualitative research by bringing forward examples from the literature and from IN•GAUGE ® , a research program spanning over 15 years and focusing on the significance of multiple perspectives and the value of gauging the health needs of young people and their families. In addition to exploring the ethical challenges in working with children and youth in research, we make the case that ethical considerat…
How families of children with complex care needs participate in everyday life
Creating Space for Youth Voice
This paper examines youth's disclosure experiences within the context of chronic illness, drawing on examples from IN•GAUGE, an on-going research program led by Dr. Roberta L. Woodgate. Youth's descriptions of their disclosure experiences provide valuable insights into the ways in which they use their voice in everyday life. This examination of the disclosure experiences of youth offers a lens through which the concept of youth voice in the resea…
Youth's Perspectives on the Determinants of Health
In this article, we discuss findings of an ethnographic exploring how Canadian youth frame health within the context of their life situations. Seventy-one youth (12 to 19 years of age) from diverse ethnic backgrounds and residing in a major city in western Canada took part in the study.We used traditional ethnographic methods of interviewing and fieldwork, as well as photovoice. Sociocultural themes emerging from the study indicate that even thou…
It is about being outside”
Sustaining Self
Long-term mechanical ventilation (LTMV) is used to support growing numbers of children and adults who develop chronic respiratory failure. The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological study was to explore the subjective meaning of the experience of transition from spontaneous breathing to reliance on LTMV. In-depth, audiorecorded interviews of 11 ventilated individuals living in a western Canadian province were transcribed and analyzed. The t…
People try and label me as someone I'm not
Co-designing Guidelines for Using Arts-based methods when Conducting Youth Mental Health Research in Online Environments
Co-designing research-informed guidelines with youth for adapting research methods to other contexts has received little research attention. We report on guidelines co-designed with youth for adapting arts-based methods (ABM) for youth mental health (MH) research in online environments. Seven youth co-researchers participated in 3 co-design workshops and 2 graphic recording focus groups. Data analysis involved a thematic analysis approach. We ide…
The centrality of disclosure decisions to the illness experience for youth with chronic conditions
The aim of this paper is to illuminate findings of disclosure experiences for youth living with chronic illness using a non-categorical approach. The findings were derived from a larger qualitative study framed by social constructivist grounded theory that sought to understand youth's involvement in healthcare decision-making in the context of chronic illness. Fifty-four youth participated in the study, ranging from 9 to 24 years. Three main them…
The embodied spaces of children with complex care needs
My Hurts
A qualitative method was used to study hospitalized young children's perceptions of their pain experiences. Participating were 11 children (ages 2 1/2 to 6 1/2 years) who had received surgical intervention. Participant observation and interviews were used to study the children's pain experiences. Each child also participated in a formal interview that combined play or drawing with a semistructured interview format. Data analysis occurred concurre…
My Hurts
A qualitative method was used to study hospitalized young children's perceptions of their pain experiences. Participating were 11 children (ages 2 1/2 to 6 1/2 years) who had received surgical intervention. Participant observation and interviews were used to study the children's pain experiences. Each child also participated in a formal interview that combined play or drawing with a semistructured interview format. Data analysis occurred concurre…
Living in a World of Our Own
In this article, we discuss findings of a hermeneutic phenomenological study that sought to describe the experiences of parents who have a child with autism. Qualitative interviews were conducted with parents from 16 families of children with autism residing in a western Canadian province. "Living in a world of our own" emerged as the essence of the parents' experiences. In "living in a world of our own," parents described a world of isolation. T…
Sustaining Self
Long-term mechanical ventilation (LTMV) is used to support growing numbers of children and adults who develop chronic respiratory failure. The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological study was to explore the subjective meaning of the experience of transition from spontaneous breathing to reliance on LTMV. In-depth, audiorecorded interviews of 11 ventilated individuals living in a western Canadian province were transcribed and analyzed. The t…
Youth's Perspectives on the Determinants of Health
In this article, we discuss findings of an ethnographic exploring how Canadian youth frame health within the context of their life situations. Seventy-one youth (12 to 19 years of age) from diverse ethnic backgrounds and residing in a major city in western Canada took part in the study.We used traditional ethnographic methods of interviewing and fieldwork, as well as photovoice. Sociocultural themes emerging from the study indicate that even thou…
Youth’s narratives about family members smoking
Further research is needed to investigate youth's perceptions about parental cigarette smoking as well as possible linkages between youth exposed to second hand smoke in their home environment and emotional and lifestyle-related health difficulties. Results emphasize the relational impact of smoking when developing anti-tobacco and cancer prevention campaigns. Recognizing the potential toll that second-hand smoke can have on youth's emotional wel…
How families of children with complex care needs participate in everyday life
It is about being outside”
Canadian adolescents' perspectives of cancer risk
Research examining adolescents' understandings of cancer and cancer risk is limited. Accordingly, we conducted an ethnographic study that sought to extend our limited understanding of Canadian adolescents' perspectives of cancer and cancer prevention including how adolescents conceptualize and understand cancer risk. This article addresses findings specific to adolescents' perspectives of cancer risk. Seventy-five adolescents (11-19 years old) to…
Building school-based cardiovascular health promotion capacity in youth
The contributions of this study were twofold. It generated evidence to support integrating positive youth development strategies into cardiovascular health promotion programs. Secondly, this study determined that the research intervention improved the participants' knowledge and attitudes about cardiovascular health and were suitable for further implementation and testing
A qualitative study on Canadian youth’s perspectives of peers who smoke
As reinforced in this study, Canadian youth increasingly view smoking as unhealthy and uncool. Moreover, youth report resisting peer influence to smoke and in fact, are now influencing their friends who smoke to quit. The self-empowerment stories of non-smoker youth reinforces the idea that the social meaning of smoking with peers is continuing to change from one where youth accepted and participated in the smoking behaviors of their peers, to an…
A qualitative study on African immigrant and refugee families’ experiences of accessing primary health care services in Manitoba, Canada
African immigrant and refugee families experience barriers to accessing primary health care. To improve access, culturally relevant programs, collaborative networking approaches, and policies that focus on addressing social determinants of health are needed
A qualitative study on the intersectional social determinants for indigenous people who become infected with HIV in their youth
The findings highlight the need for policies and programs that are broadly focused, addressing multiple social determinants together. Overall, there needs to be more emphasis on the multiple social determinants in the life situations of all Indigenous youth. Reducing the health and social disparities in Indigenous youth is key to reducing the number of young Indigenous people diagnosed with HIV. The findings also shed light on the importance of l…
Interventions for youth aging out of care
The embodied spaces of children with complex care needs
Navigating Ethical Challenges in Qualitative Research With Children and Youth Through Sustaining Mindful Presence
This article explores ethical challenges in qualitative research by bringing forward examples from the literature and from IN•GAUGE ® , a research program spanning over 15 years and focusing on the significance of multiple perspectives and the value of gauging the health needs of young people and their families. In addition to exploring the ethical challenges in working with children and youth in research, we make the case that ethical considerat…
People try and label me as someone I'm not
Above chaos, quest, and restitution
Youth experienced different settlement journeys that were mired in chaos and challenges. However, youth were more likely to experience restitution when they received social support and found a sense of belonging. In future, policies and programs that seek to improve immigrant and refugee youth's settlement experiences need to be multifaceted, offer more support and promote a sense of belonging
The Parental Experience of Unexpectedly Losing a Child in the Pediatric Emergency Department
Child loss is the most traumatic loss a parent can experience, increasing their risk of negative outcomes such as complicated grief. Unexpected loss in the unfamiliar environment of the Emergency Department (ED) significantly increases this risk. Despite this knowledge, research on child loss in the context of the ED is scarce. An interpretive description qualitative research study was performed with eight parents (five mothers and three fathers)…
The Wicked Problem of Stigma for Youth Living With Anxiety
Anxiety disorders typically emerge in childhood and, if left untreated, can lead to poor health and social outcomes into adulthood. Stigma contributes to the burden of mental illness in youth. Mental health stigma has been conceptualized as a wicked problem and efforts to address this complexity require a greater understanding of how stigma operates in the lives of youth. Fifty-eight youth in Manitoba, Canada aged 10 to 22 years and living with a…
Creating Space for Youth Voice
This paper examines youth's disclosure experiences within the context of chronic illness, drawing on examples from IN•GAUGE, an on-going research program led by Dr. Roberta L. Woodgate. Youth's descriptions of their disclosure experiences provide valuable insights into the ways in which they use their voice in everyday life. This examination of the disclosure experiences of youth offers a lens through which the concept of youth voice in the resea…
Muddy Waters
Illuminating Indigenous health care provider stories through forum theater
Learning about the historical and current context of Indigenous peoples’ lives and building campus communities that value cultural safety remains at the heart of the Canadian educational agenda and have been enacted as priorities in the Manitoba Collaborative Indigenous Education Blueprint. A participatory approach informed by forum theater and Indigenous sharing circles involving collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous health care pr…
Understanding Youth’s Lived Experience of Anxiety through Metaphors
Living with anxiety can be a complex, biopsychosocial experience that is unique to each person and embedded in their contexts and lived worlds. Scales and questionnaires are necessary to quantify anxiety, yet these approaches are not always able to reflect the lived experience of psychological distress experienced by youth. Guided by hermeneutic phenomenology, our research aimed to amplify the voices of youth living with anxiety. Fifty-eight yout…
African Refugee Youth’s Experiences of Navigating Different Cultures in Canada
Refugee youth face challenges in navigating different cultures in destination countries and require better support. However, we know little about the adaptation experiences of African refugee youth in Canada. Accordingly, this paper presents the adaptation experiences of African refugee youth and makes recommendations for ways to support youth. Twenty-eight youth took part in semi-structured interviews. Using a thematic analysis approach, qualita…
Behind the Paintbrush
Arts-based research (ABR) makes many promises, including the opportunity to engage with embodied ways of being and knowing, raise social and political concerns, as well as to address novel, participant-led inquiries. In this critical narrative review of the literature, we examine how disabled children and youth employ ABR methods in research contexts by carefully examining studies that use visual ABR. A secondary aim is to glean methodological in…
Psychology (30 works) · Sociology (25 works) · Qualitative research (22 works) · Medicine (21 works) · Developmental psychology (14 works) · Nursing (13 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Political science (9 works)